Sun Java JRE 8 Build b18 Developer Preview description

Sun Java JRE 8 Build b18 Developer Previewis developed to be a helpful, efficient and beneficial program with which you can play online games, chat with people around the world, calculate your mortgage interest, and view images in 3D, just to name a few. It's also integral to the intranet applications and other e-business solutions that are the foundation of corporate computing.

The Java Runtime Environment is intended for software developers and vendors to redistribute with their applications. The Java 2 Runtime Environment contains the Java virtual machine, runtime class libraries, and Java application launcher that are necessary to run programs written in the Java programming language. Sun Java JRE is not a development environment and does not contain development tools such as compilers or debuggers.

Major Features:

Advantages to running applications on Java SE 6

Applications run faster on the desktop and servers

New 'Dynamic Attach' diagnostics simplify troubleshooting

Expanded Solaris DTrace support provides additional value on Solaris

Improved 'native' look and feel across Solaris, Linux, and Windows

First Java platform with full support for Windows Vista

Benefits in upgrading developer environments to Sun's Java SE 6

JavaScript integrated and included with the platform

Scripting languages framework extends support for Ruby, Python, and other languages

Complete light-weight platform for web services, right out of the box

Simplified GUI design and expanded native platform support

Full JDBC4 implementation providing improved XML support for Databases

Java DB included with the JDK, a free to use and deploy Java Database

Full support by NetBeans IDE 5.5

Sun Developer Services available to help build more robust applications

Java SE Development Kit is developed to be a helpful Java platform by Sun Microsystems with which you can get JDK7 and JDK6 source snapshots under the JRL license through subversion repository Free Download